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Bestiarum vocabulum

All manner of unthinkable creatures, and renderings of the same.

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Roald Karlsen

In Greek mythology, the Gorgon was a terrifying female creature. The name derives from the Greek word gorgós, which means "dreadful." While descriptions of Gorgons vary across Greek literature, the term commonly refers to any of three sisters who had hair of living, venomous snakes, and a horrifying visage that turned those who beheld it to stone. Traditionally, while two of the Gorgons were immortal, Stheno and Euryale, their sister Medusa was not.

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"Inferno XIII" by Gustave Doré --In Greek and Roman mythology, a harpy was a female monster in the form of a bird with a human face. They steal food from their victims while they are eating and carry evildoers (especially those who have killed their family) to the Erinyes. They seem originally to have been wind spirits. Their name means "snatchers".

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"Faun and Nymph" by Pál Szinyei Merse -- The faun is a rustic forest god or goddess of Roman mythology often associated with enchanted woods. The faun is a half human–half goat (from the head to the waist being human, but with the addition of goat horns) manifestation of forest and animal spirits that would help or hinder humans at whim. Romans believed fauns inspired fear in men traveling in lonely, remote or wild places.

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"Pallas and the centaur" by Sandro Botticelli -- A centaur is a mythological creature with the head, arms, and torso of a human and the body and legs of a horse. This half-human and half-horse composition has led many writers to treat them as liminal beings, caught between the two natures, embodied in contrasted myths, both as the embodiment of untamed nature, as in their battle with the Lapiths (their kin), or conversely as teachers, like Chiron.

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Lamia was (in greek mythology) a beautiful queen of Libya who became a child-eating daemon. She is often depicted with a lower body as that of a snake, although ancient sources only described her as "disfigured".

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Pegasus is a winged divine stallion usually depicted as pure white in color. He was sired by Poseidon, in his role as horse-god, and foaled by the Gorgon Medusa. Friend of the Muses, Pegasus is the creator of Hippocrene, the fountain on Mt. Helicon.

An Apsara is a female spirit of the clouds and waters in Hindu and Buddhist mythology. Apsaras are beautiful, supernatural female beings. They are youthful and elegant, and superb in the art of dancing. Apsaras are said to be able to change their shape at will, and rule over the fortunes of gaming and gambling.

The Each Uisge (pronounced "ech ooisky" ) is the fiercest and most dangerous of the Scottish water spirits. While the Kelpie lived in running water, the Each Uisge lived in the sea, sea lochs and fresh-water lochs. In Ireland its equivalent was called the Aughisky.

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"The Dryad" by Evelyn de Morgan -- A dryad is a tree nymph, or female tree spirit, in Greek mythology. "Such deities are very much overshadowed by the divine figures defined through poetry and cult," Walter Burkert remarked of Greek nature deities. They were normally considered to be very shy creatures, except around the goddess Artemis, who was known to be a friend to most nymphs.

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"Oedipus and the Sphinx" by Gustave Moreau -- A sphinx is a mythical creature with, as a minimum, the body of a lion and a human head. In Greek tradition, it has the haunches of a lion, sometimes with the wings of a great bird, and the face of a human. It is mythicised as treacherous and merciless. Those who cannot answer its riddle suffer a fate typical in such mythological stories, as they are killed and eaten by this ravenous monster. (from Wikipedia)